The Henson Journals

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Saturday, January 14th, 1922.

There had been a considerable fall of snow during the night: and tobogganing on the slopes in the Park soon proceeded, but there was no cessation of football. Headlam's cough became so bad that he remained in bed, & was examined by Dr McCullough. I finished the sermon for St Nicholas. After lunch I walked in the Park with Edward Smith. His description of the "rising generation" in Russia is woeful enough. There is emerging a vast population of hooligans of both sexes, rotten with syphilis, destitute of every instinct of order & decency, filled with the devilish doctrines of Bolshevism, debased and atheistic. What kind of state can these create and administer?